First dev to protest praises Moz but still wants direct response from Eich.

The controversy over Brendan Eich's hire as Mozilla Corporation CEO has prompted the company to continue its PR offensive. Over the weekend, Mozilla once again declared its support of LGBT rights, advocacy, and marriage equality despite the hire of an anti-gay marriage campaign donor as CEO.

On Friday, the company posted a statement on its official blog titled "Mozilla Supports LGBT Equality." While the post echoed many of the statements made by Eich last week regarding company policies such as the Community Participation Guidelines, it also used clear language about the touchy subject at hand. "Mozilla’s mission is to make the Web more open so that humanity is stronger, more inclusive, and more just," the post said. "This is why Mozilla supports equality for all, including marriage equality for LGBT couples. No matter who you are or who you love, everyone deserves the same rights and to be treated equally." (Emphasis added.)

Hampton Catlin, the Firefox Marketplace developer who pulled his company's apps in protest of Eich's hire, responded positively to Mozilla's statement via Twitter, saying, "I'm very happy that Mozilla is unequivocal in its support now. Took longer than it should, but #proud." Still, Catlin's company blog continued to lead with an anti-Eich post that concluded, "Simply speaking, the right thing for him to do is either aggressively start rebuilding bridges with his community or step down [as CEO]."

In that post, Catlin pointed to the lack of direct response or apology by Eich about his Proposition 8 donations. Mozilla's continued statements about LGBT inclusiveness—including posts by Mozilla Foundation chair Mitchell Baker and Executive Director Mark Surman—speak clearly to both divided opinions among Mozilla staffers and a mission to deliver an open Internet for all.

However, those and other official responses still lack direct comment from Eich about thousands of dollars used for controversial donations. Activism site CREDO has thus called for Eich to "reverse his anti-gay stance, resign, or be replaced" and has a petition that has racked up over 63,000 signatures since launching on Saturday.

"Eich himself released a statement that stopped far short of addressing his anti-gay advocacy but instead affirmed his commitment to enforcing Mozilla's strong anti-discrimination policies for its employees," CREDO wrote. "But the board's decision to elevate Eich, whose history of anti-gay advocacy was public before he was hired, to the position of CEO is a forceful gesture that elevates an advocate of writing discrimination into our laws to the head of a global brand representing openness and equality."